Jeff Bingaman

Jeff Bingaman (3 October 1943-) was a US Senator from New Mexico (D) from 3 January 1983 to 3 January 2013, succeeding Harrison Schmitt and preceding Martin Heinrich.

Biography
Jeff Bingaman was born in El Paso, Texas in 1943, and he grew up in Silver City, New Mexico. He worked as a private practice attorney before serving as a counsel to the New Mexico Constitutional Convention of 1969, and he served in the US Army Reserve from 1968 to 1974. He served as Attorney General of New Mexico from 1979 to 1983, and he then served as a Democratic US Senator from 1983 to 2013. He served as Chair of the Senate Energy Committee in 2001, from 2001 to 2003, and from 2007 to 2013, when he retired. Bingaman voted against the Iraq War, supported Obamacare, and had a pro-rehabilitation stance on crime, while he opposed abortion.